Lesley Sharp

Through archive, dramatic reconstructions and the recollections of key contributors, this documentary recalls the downfall of the popular TV presenter.

1290 год. Младшая дочь лорда противостоит желанию своего отца выдать ее замуж ради денег.

When a young soldier appears, his hope of escape comes with suspicion. And as an old enemy also emerges, he is faced with an even greater temptation: revenge.

Сара, кажется, нашла свое призвание, работая в доме престарелых в Ливерпуле, где у нее особый талант общаться с жильцами. Затем, в марте 2020 года, разразится пандемия коронавируса.

A typical day in Brighton; two working-class couples are on a day trip to the beach. But Brighton is changing and the friends can’t keep up. A result is a vengeful act of violence that exposes the gaps and similarities between class, gender, and sexual orientations.

A feel-good, heart-warming film set in Yorkshire in 1977 about an adolescent boy's big summer after leaving school. It's about a boy and a dog, class and ambition, first love, and above all, family.

Ellie, a smart and successful woman, has her life changed when she is diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis. As her condition worsens, she joins a support group where she meets Dan; an encounter that has unexpected results.

Alice checks into a lonely hotel room at night and sets about making preparations to end her life, whilst obsessively re-drafting the perfect suicide note.

Emily and Andy have been trying for a baby for years. After three stillborn babies their world has been torn apart by grief. Having moved house to make a fresh start, Emily slips into a delusional state as a way of coping with her loss. Andy tries to help guide her through whilst privately struggling in his own way with the loss of his much wanted children, as well as the gradual loss of his wife as he becomes isolated from her world. Andy then takes drastic action to help Emily see the truth. But is their relationship strong enough to survive?

Follows three young couples as they travel to Korea to be blessed by their messiah, Reverend Moon, at one of the movement's controversial mass weddings

Shirley is the youngest of eight children from a mixed race marriage. By the time she is a toddler the family have moved to the all white area of Splott and by the time she is 12 Shirley has discovered she has an extraordinary voice and can earn money singing in pubs around the docks after her father if jailed for sexual crimes. As a young teenager she begins singing and dancing in 'coloured review shows'. But it is a chance meeting with struggling agent Mike Sullivan that changes her life forever. He promises to make her a star, but has no idea of the personal sacrifice that will mean for the teenaged Shirley.

After placing his ailing wife Alice in a care home, elderly academic James Parkin goes to stay at a wintry out-of-season hotel which they used to visit together. But at night he seemingly becomes the victim of a ghostly revenge - but who is the avenger?

1980 год. Вот уже 6 лет в Йоркшире свирепствует маньяк, убивающий молодых женщин. Жители напуганы, в то время как полиция, практически бездействуя, ни на шаг не приблизилась к поимке «Йоркширского Потрошителя». Для проведения тайного расследования действий полиции Йоркшира приглашен помощник начальника полиции Манчестера Питер Хантер. По мере продвижения следствия Хантер все больше убеждается в том, что все это как-то связано с убийствами в клубе «Карачи» в 1974 году...

A Blitz mother confronts a home truth.

Книжный лекарь Мортимер «Мо» Фольхарт и его 12-летняя дочь Мегги обожают книги. Но кроме этой общей страсти они еще и обладают удивительным даром — оживлять героев со страниц прочтенных ими вслух книг. Но не всё так просто, ведь когда герой из книги оживает, его место на книжных страницах должен занять настоящий человек.

Based on the best-selling book by award-winning writer Simon Garfield, four stories from Britain's 'lost decade' (1945 - 1955) are presented from the diaries of four very distinct people. In his book, Garfield selected some of the most expressive diarists, and focused on the post-war years giving a vivid portrait of how Britain coped in the post-war years and how little, or how much, attitudes have changed over the past 60 years. The stories touch on homosexuality, single women making their way in life post-war and a housewife handling the less than welcome return of her husband.

A provocative drama about an IVF mix-up which results in a white woman giving birth to a black boy.

Television drama based on a true story about a group of planespotters wrongly accused of being spies. 14 planespotters are arrested for behaving 'suspiciously' at an air base in Greece and are accused of being spies because of the telescopes, radio scanners and aircraft serial numbers they have in their possession. They plead their innocence but the farce turns into a nightmare when the group are held in squalid Greek prisons.

Вера Дрэйк, немолодая добропорядочная женщина, все дни напролет ухаживает за больным соседом и пожилой матерью. Но есть в ее жизни и тайная сторона – она посещает женщин и помогает им избавляться от нежелательной беременности. Между тем, по английским законам 50-х такая практика считается незаконной, и когда власти узнают о деятельности Веры, ее жизнь превращается в ад...

Carrie's War is an adaptation of a 1973 children's novel by Nina Bawden, set during the Second World War and following two evacuees, Carrie and her younger brother Nick.

The meeting of the quiet Helen North and the charismatic Carla on a beautiful Greek island leads to tragic consequences.

Consumed with sadness after the death of his wife and subsequent rejection from his son, a widower, at the urging of his friends, opts to appear on a vulgar, wildly popular game show (for which his wife signed him up) and watches his life start to change for the better.

Он — воплощение тьмы и ужаса. Он самый таинственный и знаменитый из всех серийных убийц, известных истории. Он погрузил Англию в атмосферу страха и породил массу слухов и домыслов. Убийца, который знает больше простого мясника или лаборанта. Убивая, он совершает чудовищный ритуал. Его прозвище — Джек-Потрошитель.Поймать его пытается инспектор Фред Эбберлайн. С помощью опиума он усиливает свой природный дар ясновидения и приходит к выводу, что дело Джека-Потрошителя — часть злодейского заговора, в который замешан Орден Масонов, выполняющий, в свою очередь, волю королевского дома.

A young boy called Pip stumbles upon a hunted criminal who threatens him and demands food. A few years later, Pip finds that he has a benefactor. Imagining that Miss Havisham, a rich lady whose adopted daughter Estella he loves, is the benefactor, Pip believes in a grand plan at the end of which he will be married to Estella. However, when the criminal from his childhood turns up one stormy night and reveals that he, Magwitch, is his benefactor, Pip finds his dreams crumbling. Although initially repulsed by his benefactor, Pip gradually becomes loyal to him and stays with him until his death.

В небольшом английском городке Шеффилд закрывается сталелитейный завод, и шестеро старых друзей остаются без работы. Вроде бы ничего страшного, но другими профессиями они не владеют, да и с работой в городе туго. А в это время в Шеффилд приезжает труппа мужского стриптиза и имеет бешеный успех у местных дам. Тут-то в голову одного из друзей и приходит блестящая идея: а что если им самим организовать стриптиз-шоу, но с небольшим отличием — раздеваться полностью. Но есть небольшая проблема: тела бывших сталеваров далеки от совершенства, да и танцевать они толком не умеют.

Лунный камень, священный индусский алмаз, был украден с головы бога Луны в его святыне Джоном Эрнкаслом в 1799 году. Говорят, что камень проклят, если его забрать из святыни. В 1848 году мужчина по имени Франклин Блейк объявляет Рейчел, что Лунный камень был завещан ей Эрнкаслом. Блейк дарит ей драгоценность в день её рождения и предлагает установить драгоценность для неё, чтобы она могла носить его. Неизбежно, драгоценность была найдена пропавшей на следующее утро, и Рейчел считает, что Блейк украл её. Преисполненный решимости доказать свою невиновность, Блейк уходит, чтобы узнать настоящую правду о краже.

Father Greg Pilkington is torn between his call as a conservative Catholic priest and his secret life as a homosexual with a gay lover, frowned upon by the Church. Upon hearing the confession of a young girl of her incestuous father, Greg enters an intensely emotional spiritual struggle deciding between choosing morals over religion and one life over another.

Tony Marchant's eloquent and painful play about the changes to how people are employed, and what that does to their sense of self.

A man's life changes when he gets a hairpiece. Oscar nominated short film

Джонни — абсолютный антигерой нашего времени, холодный, циничный и грубый молодой человек «без руля и тормозов», разрушающий свою жизнь со скоростью реактивного самолета. Временами насмешливый, временами смешной, он может быть и страстным, и нежным…

Одинокий брат и его замужняя сестра утоляют свои жгучие желания в страстном соитии. Муж сестры подозревает ее в неверности.

Marlene celebrates her new position as MD of Top Girls Appointment Agency by giving a dinner party for five oddly assorted women from centuries past.

A husband drives throughout the night on a voyage of self-discovery, while his wife waits at home, raking over the ashes of their marriage as their child sleeps in the next room.

Clarence Flamer hosts a late-night talk show on regional radio station North Star Sound. A phone call he takes one night leads to his discovering a mortgage scam being run by a group of estate agents. His attempts to delve deeper have tragic consequences.

Poised to attend Oxford University, 19-year-old Charles Highway decides it's high time to have a romantic encounter with an older woman. With the help of a computer program and several eccentric relatives, Highway sets his sights on seducing Rachel Noyce, a stunning American in her 20s. However, Highway has his work cut out for him. Noyce has a boyfriend, DeForest, and is not exactly receptive to Highway's advances — at first, anyway.

When he was a little boy, Dillon's rock musician father and hippie mother died in a traffic accident. Now in his twenties, Dillon wants nothing more than a normal, responsible life, working in an office and taking care of the grandmother who raised him. But his grandmother has other ideas, and Dillon finds himself lured into an alternate lifestyle of art, pleasure and rebellion.

A view of the inhabitants of a derelict road in Manchester, unsatisfied with their lives and routines. A young man locks himself away from the world. An older woman flirts with a soldier on leave. Two men invite two girls into an empty house.

Rita and Sue are two teenagers living on a run-down council estate in Bradford, who both share a job babysitting for Bob and Michelle's children. Whilst giving them a lift home one night, Bob decides to take Rita and Sue up to a deserted, country-side landscape. Clearly knowing what he has in mind, Rita and Sue are only too happy to oblige and both have a sexual encounter with him that becomes a regular occurrence.